Familiarity breeds content.

This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow older.

So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That will be amusing and terrific.

It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered down by mistake. The older we get the more willing we are to follow those, to surprise ourselves.

I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right thing, they did the wrong thing. They're a dying institution in many parts of the world because they refuse to ordain women or married people. And now they're a dying institution because some of their members did enormous harm to young people and instead of responding aggressively with humility, and with love, and with the confession of wrongdoing, they tried to spin it as though they were a political party, and that's just deplorable.